This is the game that took a big dump over the legacy created by MOO/MOO2. It was not developed by SimTex which created the first two games. I vaguely remember buying and playing this game for a couple hours when it first came out. I was so appalled by this garbage I uninstalled it and never came back.
The bones of an entertaining game are there. What's missing are enough unique quests/npcs/space stations/equipment. Main story line is very bleh. All the stations feel the same. The half-dozen factions you fight against feel the same. There are a couple weapon types but it didn't add much variety to the combat. The 2D navigation and combat also felt constricting. Maybe I'm overrating Freelancer 1 & 2 from nostalgia but it felt like there was alot more meat to those two games.
